The 2nd film from Studio Ghibli to released on Blu-ray after Ponyo. This is the first film created by the celebrated animation studio direced by Hayao Miyazaki.

"Nausicaä, the princess of a small nation, lives in a world devastated by a holocaust called the "Seven Days of Fire". She tries to stop other warring nations from destroying themselves and from destroying the only means by which their world can be saved from the spread of polluted wastelands."

I remember watching this when I was a very young girl and being truly moved.. it was randomly shown on channel 4 I think. I wondered why other "cartoons" weren't this good. Only looking back do I realise I was into anime before I even knew what anime was :p

I've been skipping the dvd set hoping that Ghibli will release those great movies in bluray, guess it time to start collecting X), does this have the japanese and english audio track? As i tend to watch anime in their native language with english sub.

Really tempted on this - haven't got this on dvd or seen it, but love Princess Mononoke. I tried rewind.net to compare country versions, but don't see bluray comparisons for this for different regions. That said I use ps3 whhich is region locked (though there's always the pc).

This stuff is so much better than the crap I started on with anime. The early stuff like project ako were nice in terms of anime style of drawing, but so much anime lacks smooth story telling. The likes of utter crap like ultimate teacher and other more adult stuff put me off anime for a while and it was only few things like Oh My Goddess, KOR and Ghibli that pulled me back in.

I've been skipping the dvd set hoping that Ghibli will release those great movies in bluray, guess it time to start collecting X), does this have the japanese and english audio track? As i tend to watch anime in their native language with english sub.

me too!!!

i also enjoy watching everything in original soundtrack however, i grew up in hong kong so was used to the cantonese versions which i still prefer (weirdly, only on a few: nausica, laputa, kiki's and grave of fireflies)

For the ones they only release overseas, locking bluray regions means that you're going to have to download the movie and play it on your PS3 if you've got one, or your PC. Region locking is stupid! It's especially annoying that America moved over to the same region as Japan so that they can enjoy each other's blurays but we can't :(

not all blu-rays are region locked, even if they say region A, they are effectively region free, i've got a few american blu-rays that play fine on my UK PS3, if you google I believe there is a nice list that shows which ones work and which dont.

In Japan, and possibly the US I think, so either way you would need a Zone A compatible Bluray player.

Your mistaken. Only Nausicaa and The Castle of Cagliostro (and Ponyo of course) have been released in Japan with only Ponyo in the US. Laputa and My Neighbours the Yamadas are due out in Japan in December.

I'm seriously disappointed I missed this, first I miss the cheap Play pre-order, now this.